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About the job

As a Specialist Nurse, you play a key role in developing and ensuring the quality of care and support work. Through your advanced expertise, you contribute to strengthening the organization's working methods and creating good conditions for safe, secure, and person-centered care and support.

The role involves combining daily care work with specific responsibilities for supervision, knowledge transfer, and organizational development. You act as a support for staff and managers regarding nursing, interaction, documentation, and quality work, and also contribute to the introduction of new employees.

In close collaboration with care recipients, relatives, managers, and staff, you work to develop interventions and working methods that promote the individual's health, participation, and independence. Through your engagement, you contribute to a learning organization where competence, quality, and continuous development are in focus.

We are currently looking for a Specialist Nurse for the geropsychiatric unit at Kärrahus Care and Support Housing.

Care and support housing is a residence for those who need service and nursing care around the clock. Here, care recipients receive all the support they need in their daily lives while living in their own apartments. Kärrahus Care and Support Housing consists of two connected buildings, spread over five floors, with a focus on dementia, geropsychiatry, and somatic care. There are a total of 109 apartments in the residence.

The position is a permanent full-time role. Working hours are during the day and evening, with work every other weekend.

About you

Qualifications

• We are looking for you who are trained as a Nurse Aide and can show the National Board of Health and Welfare's certificate for the protected professional title, or alternatively, show that you were employed as a Nurse Aide when the new rules were introduced.
• A University College degree of at least 200 credits within rehabilitation, psychiatry, dementia, palliative care, elderly people with multiple illnesses, or other areas that the employer considers equivalent.
• Work experience within care and support.
• The role requires computer literacy for documentation and deviation management in various IT systems, as well as good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

Meritorious

• Knowledge of psychiatry and experience working with people in this field.

Personal qualities

You show respect and consideration for everyone, create a positive atmosphere, and put the care recipient's needs at the center. Interaction is a central part of your professional role. As a driven and productive employee, you take responsibility and initiative to move the work forward, whether you are working independently or in a group.

Your ability to be flexible allows you to quickly adapt to changes and see opportunities in new situations. You contribute to others' learning and create an environment that promotes dialogue, participation, and engagement. Furthermore, you are a persuasive communicator who can influence decisions and inspire good performance, team spirit, and increased motivation.

We warmly welcome you to join us! We look forward to reading your application.

Other

We are Sweden's largest municipal care and support provider. With us, you get:

• An employer that promotes equal rights and opportunities regardless of background or professional competence.
• Secure employment.
• Meaningful tasks.
• Career opportunities and competence development.
• Full-time employment with the possibility of part-time.
• Good holiday conditions.
• Wellness allowance, bicycle allowance, and other discounts and offers.

The City of Gothenburg applies individual and differentiated salary setting. Here you can get more information about, among other things, salary statistics. There is also information about other benefits available in the City of Gothenburg.

In this recruitment, you apply without a cover letter. When you apply, you will be asked to answer questions relevant to the position. Your answers will become an important part of our selection process.

Before an offer of employment is made, we ask you, by law, to present an extract from the police's criminal record register together with a valid identity document. Order the extract yourself from the police's website here: Work in the home with elderly and people with disabilities, e-service | Swedish Police Authority (https://polisen.se/tjanster/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning/).

Do you have protected personal data? Call the recruiting manager to find out about other application options instead of submitting an application. Otherwise, you apply via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

We decline offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance. In this recruitment process, the choice of recruitment channels has already been made.

About us

We are Sweden's largest municipal care and support provider in the future's most important sector. With us, you make a difference in everyday life by creating security and joy for the elderly in Gothenburg. We combine modern technology with what can never be automated: the warmth of a genuine meeting. Here you get both career opportunities and work that means something. Together we create the world's best city for a long and dignified life. Welcome.